The World’s Greatest Literature
THE Masterpieces of the World’s Greatest Authors in History,Biography, Philosophy, Economics, Politics; Epic and DramaticLiterature, History of English Literature, Oriental Literature(Sacred and Profane), Orations, Essays. Sixty-one Crown OctavoVolumes :: :: ::
ILLUSTRATED WITH FRONTISPIECES, EACH A MASTER
WORK OF ART IN PORTRAITUREOR HISTORIC PAINTING
Editors
L I B R A R Y C O M M I T T E E
JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.
Historian and Journalist
TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D.D., LL.D.
Ex-President Yale University
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
Author and Critic
PAUL VAN DYKE, D.D.
Princeton University
ALBERT ELLERY BERGH
Managing Editor
A D V I S O R Y C O M M I T T E E
JOHN T. MORGAN
United States Senate
FREDERIC R. COUDERT, LL.D.
New York Bar
EDWARD EVERETT HALE
Author and Editor
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, LL.D.
Catholic University of America
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
Literary Editor
Sword Dance in a Café
Photogravure from the original painting by Jean Léon Gérôme, exhibitedin the Paris Salon, 1888
THIS fine picture is a thoroughly characteristic specimen of the work ofthe most popular of modern French artists. Oriental subjects especiallyattracted him, as he had an eye for striking figures and brilliantcolors. He died January 10, 1904.
TURKISH LITERATURE
COMPRISING
FABLES, BELLES-LETTRES, AND SACRED TRADITIONS
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME
WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY
EPIPHANIUS WILSON, A.M.
REVISED EDITION
NEW YORK
P. F. COLLIER & SON
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[iii] Copyright,
1901 By THE COLONIAL PRESS
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION
THE national literature of Turkey is something with which the Europeanand American mind is by no means familiar, and, indeed, it has onlyrecently become a distinctive feature